Writing
- The agent reads everything
30 September 2026
What happens when an AI agent with staff-level authority reads text written by the people it's checking. Notes on MCP, prompt injection and where the controls really sit.
- The last mile of open banking is a policy choice
August 2026
Experimenting with Kitty, a community-owned payments app in Leeds, and the one permission we're missing at the shop counter.
- Edges don't resolve into points: a letter to my friends
July 2026
A letter posted to friends that became the start of Slower Networks: on the body, folklore, the undefined region between 0 and 1, and where edges come from.
- The Blockchain and Why it Solves Everything
21 September 2018
Why blockchain matters, from the history of the ledger and the 2008 crash to programming new ways of redistributing wealth.
University essays
I wrote a lot of essays at university, some better than others. It always seemed sad to pour so much time into writing, only for them to be read by one person, graded and then forgotten. These are now more than ten years old, and my writing style (and opinions) have changed, but I'm still proud of them.
- Do you find the Habermasian defence of deliberative democracy persuasive?
BA Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds, 2013
- Were the World Bank and IMF created to perpetuate the economic dominance of the North over the South?
BA, University of Leeds, North-South Linkages module
- Derrida and Deleuze: Constructing a Friendship
MA dissertation, Social and Political Thought, University of Leeds, 2015. Award for Best Dissertation
- Essentialism and Difference: Tensions and Trajectories in Black Political Thought and Black Aesthetics
MA Social and Political Thought, University of Leeds, 2015
- To what extent can Foucault and Deleuze be used to analyse hip hop as a culture of resistance?
MA Social and Political Thought, University of Leeds, 2015
- Les élites économiques et la construction de l'Europe
Sciences Po Rennes, 2011–12. Written and assessed in French